The Cyborg Rose : A leap to the future

in #science7 years ago

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
Sir Nicola Tesla, a great visionary and one of the greatest of scientists, contributed much to the creation of the luxurious world that we live in today. He gave us alternating current, steam-powered oscillator generator and much more. He too had some ideas....revolutionary ideas that would have changed the world completely, one of them was the wireless power transmission which would have been a revolutionary invention, but due to lack of funding he was not able to achieve success.
Since, the 20th century this great idea was lost, but not any longer, now that scientists have figured out ways to generate electricity from a plants. As we know that living beings are made to adapt into situations sa per their environments, a very slow process though. Scientists have figured out how to inject a conducting solution into a rose cutting, and have it spontaneously form wires throughout its stem, leaves, and petals to create fully functioning supercapacitors for energy storage. The so-called e-Plant was able to be charged hundreds of times without any loss on the performance, and the team behind the invention says it could allow us to one day create fuel cells or autonomous energy systems inside living plants.
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The team of scientists working on this project produced their first cyborg rose by filling its veins with a conductive polymer solution, and having it weave the material into its living tissue. Within just two days, it was found that the conducting polymer had been absorbed into its network of veins, and when they removed the outer tissue of the base of the stem, they found actual polymer wires running through the rose's internal xylem network. The solution that was injected into the plant is called PEDOT, or poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), by adding some resistors and electrodes to a setup using the hybrid rose plant a fully functional system was achieved which could pass a current through it. This allowed the scientists to turn the network of wires into a fully functioning electronic device by placing several supercapacitors - powerful components used in many different kinds of electronics to store large amounts of electrical energy - along the stem.
The next step for the researchers is to make the technique work in a living rose, not just a cutting, so that the possibility of growing primitive electronic systems inside forest vegetation or fields of vegetables to harvest energy could actually be realized.
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This can be seen as a giant leap towards the future, depending on the view of the reader, but this invention has definitely taken us one step closer.
If this technology stands out successful many remote areas will be sufficed with electricity and innovation will get a level-up and many problems like load shedding and power surges will be eliminated and we could look forward to free electricity. Sir Nicola Tesla's dream of free and wireless electricity would find it's way into the ever growing world.
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